Well ARPANET does not exist anymore, it was decommissioning on February 28, 1990.
During its period of operation the ARPANET expanded from 4 nodes in two western states (California & Utah) in 1969 to many millions scattered across all 50 states of the US and connecting into many others national computer networks around the world.
So yes, ARPANET was a wide area network (i.e. WAN) from the day it sent its first successful message (at 10:30 pm on October 29, 1969 from Boelter Hall student programmer Charley Kline, transmitted from UCLA's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer) until the day it was decommissioned.
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ARPANET was decommissioned in 1990.
ARPANET ceased to exist in 1990, so it was not around in 1996. What was around then, and what ARPANET had a part in creating, was the internet. ARPANET itself, dated back to 1969.
ARPAnet eventually developed into the World Wide Web.
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was an early packet switching network that became the technical foundation of the Internet.
The Internet as we know it today is based on Arpanet.
ARPANET was original name of the computer network that eventually morphed into the Internet.
Today, the Arpanet is called "Internet".Today, the Arpanet is called "Internet".Today, the Arpanet is called "Internet".Today, the Arpanet is called "Internet".